Issue #9400: Partial backport of fix for #9244
In multiprocessing, a pool worker process would die
if the result/error could not be pickled. This could
cause pool methods to hang.
In 3.x this was fixed by 0aa8af79359d (which also added
an error_callback argument to some methods), but the fix
was not back ported.

don't use a slot wrapper from a different special method (closes #14658)
This also alters the fix to #11603. Specifically, setting __repr__ to
object.__str__ now raises a recursion RuntimeError when str() or repr() is
called instead of silently bypassing the recursion. I believe this behavior is
more correct.

Issue14559: Attempt to fix compilation with previous versions of the Microsoft Compiler.
Update the various project files with Python/random.c which was recently added.
On my old Windows XP computer:
- VS8.0 works reasonably.
- I don't have the VS7.1 compiler.
- VC6 does not compile, at least with the SDK shipped with the compiler (12 years ago!); newer SDKs might work.

Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing on Windows (#6884).
These regex changes fix a number of issues for distutils on Windows:
- #6884: impossible to include a file starting with 'build'
- #9691 and #14004: sdist includes too many files
- #13193: test_filelist failures
This commit replaces the incorrect changes done in 557a973709de,
c566a3447ba1 and 3925081a7ca0 to fix #13193; we were too eager to fix
the test failures and I did not study the code enoug…

#14434: make tutorial link in 'help' banner version-specific
Without this fix, both 2.7 and 3.x would always point to the "current"
docs...which means that before this fix python 3.2 'help' pointed to the 2.7
tutorial, and without this fix when we switch over to the 3.x docs being
current, 2.7 would have pointed to the python3 tutorial.

Fixes Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes
in the hash table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat
library to avoid a denial of service due to hash collisions.
Patch by David Malcolm with some modifications by the expat project.

- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
modifications by the expat project.

Fixes Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes
in the hash table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat
library to avoid a denial of service due to hash collisions.
Patch by David Malcolm with some modifications by the expat project.

Move xml.etree higher and xml.parsers.expat lower in the markup ToC.
I assume that most users looking at this page are looking for a library
to process XML, not a low-level parser. First proposed in #11379.

Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak sets to return a better approximation when some objects are dead or dying.
Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than O(n).
Thanks to Yury Selivanov for reporting.